Thursday, February 12, 2026

Credit where credit is due


Thanks to Rand Paul.

But that doesn't mean ICE Queen Noem and the rest of Trump's administration will stop claiming those things are criminal attacks.
 

House passes SAVE Act

 Get on the phone to your Senators.



Typical Trump nominee


 

And nobody corrects him


 He says this and posts it on social media from time to time.

And the cheating he's always squealing about comes from the Republicans.

UPDATE 06:33 pm:





Getting ready for SCOTUS on tariffs


 
When the Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, a similarly rapid resolution seemed possible.

After all, Trump’s lawyers told the court that speed was of the essence on an issue central to the Republican president’s economic agenda. They pointed to a statement from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning that the “longer a final ruling is delayed, the greater the risk of economic disruption.”

But nearly three months have elapsed since arguments in the closely watched case, and the court isn’t scheduled to meet in public for more than three weeks.

  AP News
That was published January 28, and we still have no ruling on Trump's ability to level global tariffs.
A decision upholding the tariffs would cement an expansive new exercise of presidential power and preserve a cornerstone of Trump’s agenda that economists estimate could boost some U.S. manufacturing in the long run but cost American families an average of more than $1,700 this year alone in higher prices.

[...]

If the tariffs are invalidated, the U.S. government could owe tens of billions of dollars of refunds to businesses that have paid them. Such an outcome could also eliminate a primary bargaining chip that Trump has used in negotiations with other countries.

  ABC

When are the Dem elites going to figure it out?

 Special election primary in New Jersey.


Death cult


 

Bingo

 

Exactly.

The reason they are not doing so, and the reason there are so many of them in Trump's administration is the same: Trump cannot afford to have anyone threatened with actual legal proceeding where they might feel compelled to tell the truth about his culpability.

The plight of detainees (and immigration attorneys)

 


The actual war on poverty

It's the war on poor people.


 

Your eyes have been lying again


 It might look that way to you, but that's not what ICE is doing.  


Homan is a lying rat bastard and an evil Nazi.



We'll believe our eyes.  But to tell the truth, it was getting too difficult to snatch people in Minneapolis/St. Paul. The citizenry was outwitting them at every turn, and the optics were horrible.

Yesterday in St. Paul...


UPDATE 09:30 am:


And it was giving encouragement to other cities.

But, here's the real surprise: he's thanking the Minnesota Dems...



Ah, the technicalities.







Nazi regime


 I don't know what happened after the end of this clip, but WTF?  Did the interviewer not jump up and shout, "APPROPRIATE to KILL them?"

White supremacists have their forever home in the Trump administration


 After all, Daddy Trump is a white supremacist himself.

Voter ID




This is the most appropriate response to that kind of bullshit.  Age laws are meant to protect the community. Voter ID laws are not to protect communities, but rather to protect one party that can't win without cheating and suppression.


Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Bondi testifies

 Sort of.



That guy.  I have to wonder what his story is.  Maybe what the question is.

The hearing got testy almost from the start, with Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) telling Bondi: "We ask you politely but firmly, please do not waste one second of our precious time."

Raskin told Bondi to give Democrats direct answers to their questions and not try to evade or run out the clock.

"We saw your performance in the Senate, and we're not going to accept that. This isn't a game," he added, referencing a "burn book" Bondi allegedly used to dredge up opposition research against Democrats.

[...]

The hearing continued to deteriorate from there, with Bondi clashing with nearly every Democrat on the panel with growing hostility.

  Axios
Completely expected. She is a nasty piece of work. And Trump likes that about her. It's exactly the way he behaves.
Asked by Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) how many alleged Epstein co-conspirators the DOJ is pursuing, he and Bondi got into another heated back and forth, with Bondi declaring, "Oh, OK, here we go with these theatrics."

[...]

"Not on our time, no way," Raskin said. "And I told you about that, attorney general, before we started."

"You don't tell me anything, you washed-up, loser lawyer!" Bondi shouted back at Raskin. "You're not even a lawyer."
See what I mean?
Bondi even clashed with Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a libertarian-minded conservative who has led the charge to release the Epstein files.
Of course. Massie is detested by Trump world precisely because of his stance on the Epstein files.
Massie confronted Bondi over allegations that the DOJ has over-redacted key information in the Epstein files and withheld crucial documents from the public.

"This guy has Trump derangement syndrome, he needs to - you're a failed politician," Bondi responded.

[...]

As Bondi began to respond by referencing a slain Border Patrol agent, Balint shot back, "For goodness' sake, this is pathetic ... this is not a game, secretary."

"I'm attorney general," Bondi responded, with Balint quipping, "My apologies, I couldn't tell."
Ouch.


I'm guessing this is why they're laughing...





UPDATE 05:37 pm:



Not the first time she did this.  At least she did it with a looseleaf notebook.


Gym Jordan has the gavel.  She knows she can get away with it.


This clip fleshes out Balint's comment with her question and Bondi's nasty response.

God, Blondie is SUCH a twat.


Utterly insane

 

We won't go into the future of alternative, ecologically sound, sources of energy - let China and Europe do that.  We'll go back into the past of finite coal energy where coal mining communities live in poverty and death while the earth is raped and scarred for no good reason, the air is polluted, and a few coal barons get rich.  Great plan.


UPDATE 05:23 pm:  You have got to be kidding...



UPDATE 02/12/2026:  And in tandem...



Is that RICO?


In this case, the ACLU’s attorneys argue that federal officers worked closely with the county sheriff and city police officers to terrorize families at the racetrack raid, and were therefore part of a conspiracy.

The conspiracy argument has succeeded before—most prominently, after federal officers conspired with state officers to murder Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in Chicago in 1969. It also was used to sue over an immigration raid in Tennessee during Trump’s first term. But ACLU attorney Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, who is working on the Idaho case, told me she hasn’t seen it tried during Trump’s second term, and that the outcome of the case could have implications far beyond this small Idaho town: All across the country, the Trump administration is collaborating closely with state and local police to carry out its mass-deportation agenda.

  Mother Jones
This looks like a lawsuit to watch closely.

It wasn't Biden's fault?


 

Speaking of Jeanine Pirro


 With all due respect congressman, I assume your question is rhetorical.


Sartorial sense - or nonsense


Jeanine Pirro and Donald Trump share the same tailor.  And that woman on the wall in white - can't she find someone to  hem those pants?

Ten days - "Special security"


Ten days is a very long time for a major airport to be closed.  WTF is going on?

UPDATE 08:36 am:




WTF?  Was it a typo meant to read 10 hours?  Was somebody being blackmailed or extorted by Trump and they caved?

From the AP:



I still think blackmail or extortion makes more sense.

UPDATE 09:03 am:  From an El Paso City Council Representative...




The FAA is said to have been worried about DOD (DOW?) counter-drone testing.  A high energy laser that could be used against drones was to be tested at a military base (Fort Bliss) near the airport.  I'm vaguely recalling an incident where some government agency was testing some weaponry near a parade??? So, yeah, I can see why the FAA would be concerned about high energy lasers being tested in the airspace over an airport.  JFC.  Pete Hegseth at his best.

UPDATE 09:19 am: Speaking of lack of communication...


LOL.  Bullshit.  These people are great with the off-the-cuff bullshit.